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tdiff··on The Secret Life of Circuits
> It gives real answers but doesn’t demand a year of calculus beforehand.

Oh yes, these kinds of shortcuts have always worked great.

tdiff··on World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world
Same for Russia.
tdiff··on Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
I've always imaginged that Amazonia is a hive of all types of diseases. I'd rather wonder how did they manage to survive there.
tdiff··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
Would be funny if the defending side sent all the info they have to openai, tipping off to attacking models that they were noticed.
tdiff··on So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)
Just using an opportunityto promote guys making really great videos about basic physics, focusing on experiments:

https://youtu.be/kUkgKsEq330?is=uxc8zlUy0z1eng6M

Unfortunately, English version are somewhat reduced from Russian, but still.

tdiff··on How to Read More Books
Thanks. Honestly, I am somewhat concerned with all those 3rd party apps obtaining some control of my phone. Personally, would be so much nicer to have the same service provided by system. Vibecoding one is really an option.
tdiff··on How to read more books
The most distracting app for me is Telegram with numerous channels, which I find myself doomscrolling too often, and at the same with numerous crucial personal contracts.

Really sad modern phones don't allow to set app's budget for custom interval, like 5 minutes in an hour.

tdiff··on Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)
I would guess they mean hiit can traumatize e.g. joints or cardiovascular system, especially for the elderly.
tdiff··on Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
First thing coming into mind is the number of companies and individuals blocking Russians in the beginning of the war before any sanctions out of virtue signalling.
tdiff··on Ten years of ClickHouse in open source
It is sad they are afraid to mention on the page that "data processing for a web analytics system ... similar to Google Analytics" was actually something used in Yandex.
tdiff··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Out of curiosity, can that model be trained from the beginning without touching "sensitive" areas and remain useful in others? Will it be able to help in building biological weapons without being trained on articles and books about biology/ medicine?
tdiff··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
Just for context, it looks very much the same as Fast Payment System in Russia. Been a thing for some 10 years, and huge amount of retail works on it.
tdiff··on Google changes its search box
I think perplexity implements the same. Ive been using it as a default search for a month and actually still find myself explicitly using Google instead.

The ai generated summaries are slow, often miss the point of question and seem to be focused on user engagement, not in giving set of infos to sort out myself.

So there are two different types of queries, and when I want llm's answer, I ask chatgpt directly.

tdiff··on I’ve joined Anthropic
Interesting if his educational startup turned out to be less perspective at least with the current gen of llms.
tdiff··on Days without GitHub incidents
Not buying that untill they use a picture from the Simpsons
tdiff··on Bugs Rust won't catch
Was at actually so important to rush with the switch?
tdiff··on Bugs Rust won't catch
Ok if there were some rust guys rewriting coreutils with no experience in linux, but how come Ubuntu accepted it into its mainline?
tdiff··on Chernobyl wildlife forty years on
If you check what people were telling about him (at least here: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%BE..., sorry for Russian), you will find what the opinions were very different. Yet in the series it all boiled down to a very primitive character.
tdiff··on Chernobyl wildlife forty years on
It is silly how the show depicted Dyatlov as an arrogant sargeant behaving like a bully in American series about mid school kids.

This alone sets the tone of a TV show that needs to have clear goodies and baddies, and obviously life is never that simple.

tdiff··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
Is it actually allowed to suggest that some races are better than others in some areas?
tdiff··on Middle schooler finds coin from Troy in Berlin
I don't get why people capable of making complex bas-relief could not make the coin more or less round
tdiff··on America tells private firms to “hack back”
> more about authorizing private to your army to find and capture pirate vessels

I think important detail is that it authorised attacks on any foreign vessel (of a specific nation), not only on pirate ships.

tdiff··on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
I just wonder if there are comments in this thread from anthropic bots, marketing itself
tdiff··on Cancel ChatGPT AI boycott surges after OpenAI pentagon military deal
> more than 1.5 million people have taken action, either by cancelling subscriptions, sharing boycott messages on social media, or signing up via quitgpt.org

That's just silly compared to their user base and wont have any effect

tdiff··on What Is OAuth?
> What I need is to understand why it is designed this way, and to see concrete examples of use cases that motivate the design

Author managed to simultaneously praise the question and avoid answering it at all.

tdiff··on AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
Is not that model-dependant? Skimmed through, but did not find which model the tests were run with.
tdiff··on Russia using Interpol's wanted list to target critics abroad, leak reveals
> That suggests that Russia was for 20+ years fine with whatever financial crimes this guy had been committing as long as he played ball ... and is really using these crimes to get him now for political motives.

Even if so, it does not contradict the idea that his actions may have been unlawful and thus can be punished according to crimial law.

tdiff··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
It just destroys the "eco" image of deutsche railways.

Well, I'm all pro public transport, but please make it work first.

tdiff··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
Im jealous of people able to write multi-paragraph text for such a simple thought.
tdiff··on Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto
Hard part is keeping the feature branches orthogonal and maintaing all the -base branches. Every fixup commit would invalidate them.
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